401(k) Monitor

Trane Technologies Employee Savings Plan (Esp)

Trane Technologies Company LLC · Davidson, NC · EIN 135156640 · Plan 078 · Form 5500 for plan year 2024

What Trane Technologies put into the plan, per active participant

$8,142

Trane Technologies put $8,142 into this plan for each of its 21,584 active participants in plan year 2024. That is the whole employer side, matching money, profit sharing, non-elective and safe-harbor contributions and reallocated forfeitures together, because the Form 5500 reports them on one line, so it is not the match rate.

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Trane Technologies put in more per active participant than 95% of plans with 5,000+ participants in industrial and materials manufacturing. The middle plan in that group of 178 reported $3,585. Industrial and materials manufacturing comes from business code 333200, which Trane Technologies entered on its own Form 5500. Sponsors pick that code themselves, so a code that does not describe what the employer does ranks the plan against the wrong companies.

What this figure cannot separate: how much Trane Technologies pays, and how much it puts in

This is dollars, not a rate. A Form 5500 carries no payroll, so the figure reflects both how much the employer puts in and how much the employer pays: two plans running the same formula report different amounts when one pays better. Crossing the peer group with industry holds most of that difference still, and none of it disappears.

This is one plan year, not an average. A true-up, a plan merger or a one-off contribution moves a single year on its own.

Source: Form 5500 filing for the plan year ended December 31, 2024, received by the DOL October 8, 2025 · DOL EFAST2

The $8,142 above is the Form 5500 figure for plan year 2024, and it counts every employer dollar on one line. Trane Technologies also files a Form 11-K, which states the match formula on its own for plan year 2025: the section below reads $2,970 a year at a $49,500 salary, and the same filing states employer contributions made outside the match. That second figure is what the formula pays one worker on that salary, and not an amount either filing reports. The two figures cover different plan years and measure different things, so neither one is the other one corrected.

What the plan cost, per participant

Not ranked

Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses. That usually means the employer pays the bills directly, or that fees are netted inside fund assets, so the plan is not ranked on cost and $0 is not a cheap plan.

401(k) Monitor Score

Not scored

This filing reports one of the two amounts the score is built from, so it takes none. Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses. That usually means the employer pays the bills directly, or that fees are netted inside fund assets, so the plan is not ranked on cost and $0 is not a cheap plan.

It keeps whichever of the two it does report, above. Nothing is filled in from an average, from another year or from another plan, because a two-part score computed on one part is a different measure wearing the same name.

What the score would read, on a filing that carries both: Where this plan stands against plans of its size and industry on two amounts its Form 5500 reports: employer money in per active person, and plan-paid cost per person. It reads no match formula, no vesting schedule and no fund lineup, because a Form 5500 states none of them.

On this page: the match and vesting terms · what to check next · every figure on the filing · fees itemised · the plans this one is ranked against · service providers

The match and vesting terms, from a Form 11-K

The match formula and the vesting schedule are stated in a Form 11-K, which is filed only by employers whose plan holds company stock. A Form 5500 reports neither.

What Trane Technologies puts in

$2,970

a year, at a $49,500 salary.

The match paragraph, word for word
The Company contributes via matching and non-matching contributions to the Plan. Company matching contributions are 100% of participants’ contributions up to 6% of eligible compensation, as defined. All matching contributions are made in cash and invested in the same manner as the participant contributions. Additionally, participants receive a non-matching company contribution of 2% of eligible compensation, as defined.

What you contribute to collect all of it

Contribute at least 6% of your pay to collect the full match.

That is $2,970 a year at a $49,500 salary, and it scales with your own.

Vesting score

100 out of 100

How fast the employer’s money becomes yours. Higher than 48% of the 253 schedules we have scored.

It measures vesting speed and nothing else. It says nothing about the size of the match, what the plan charges, or the funds inside it.

Vesting scheduleImmediate

Share of the employer's money that is the worker's at hire and at each of the first 6 anniversaries: 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%, 100%. The score is the average of those 7 readings.

Vesting, word for word
Participants are vested immediately in their elective contributions plus actual earnings thereon. The Company’s matching contribution portion of participants’ accounts is also immediately vested. Company non-matching contributions are vested after 3 years of service or upon attainment of age 65 while employed, or death or disability (as defined by the Plan) while employed.
True-up after year endStated in the filing

The plan tops the match up after year end, so contributing unevenly through the year does not cost the worker part of it.

The same match paragraph, word for word
The Company contributes via matching and non-matching contributions to the Plan. Company matching contributions are 100% of participants’ contributions up to 6% of eligible compensation, as defined. All matching contributions are made in cash and invested in the same manner as the participant contributions. Additionally, participants receive a non-matching company contribution of 2% of eligible compensation, as defined.

The wait before the match starts and the year-end true-up appear above when the filing states them. Neither is part of the score, and a filing that is silent on one of them is not a plan without it.

The formula, the six-year window and a worked example

What the plan costs, against plans of its size

Not reported

The Form 5500 filing does not report the plan-paid administrative expenses this figure needs.

The match, vesting and eligibility terms above are read from the Form 11-K filed by Trane Technologies, whose page states the full formula, the vesting schedule and the sentence behind each one.

Matched to this employer by sponsor name, not by an identifier stated in the filing. That Form 11-K covers Trane Technologies Employee Savings Plan.

What to check next

  • Collecting the whole match

    Trane Technologies’s Form 11-K pays the whole match at 6% of pay, which is $2,970 a year at a $49,500 salary and scales with your own. Your payslip and your recordkeeper account both show the rate you set. A rate below 6% collects less than the whole match.

    That Form 11-K covers plan year 2025. The plan’s Summary Plan Description states the terms in force, and the plan administrator must provide it to participants on request.

  • Your own numbers are not on this page

    Every figure here is the whole plan for plan year 2024, taken from one filing and divided by headcounts. Your own contribution rate, your balance and the fees taken from your account are on your recordkeeper’s site. What you may put in during a year is set by the IRS and not by the plan: this year’s limits ↗.

Key figures

From Schedule H of Form 5500 filing 20251008072227NAL0003096531001, plan year 2024.
Total plan assets, end of year$7,513,116,036
Net assets$7,513,116,036
Participants, beginning of year26,064
Of which active21,584
Plan typeSingle employer
Size cohortThe peer group we rank fees against.5,000+ participants
Employer share of the money that went in, plan year 2024The rest came from employees, who put in $204,686,615. The share falls when employees save more, so a plan whose staff contribute heavily reads lower here through no act of the employer. It is printed as a fact and it is not part of the score.46%

Plan-paid administrative expenses

Schedule H reports $0 in plan-paid administrative expenses for this year. $0 usually means the employer pays the bills, or fees are netted inside fund assets. It does not mean the plan is free.

The plans this one is ranked against

Fees on this page are ranked against the 5,000+ participant cohort, where the median plan pays $54.84 per participant. The sponsor files from North Carolina, one of 1,489 plans on file there, at a median of $118.56 per participant. Its business code places the plan in industrial and materials manufacturing, one of 6,008 on file, which run to a median of $142.19.

Plans of a similar size in North Carolina

The plans nearest this one by participant count, out of 60 in its peer group. Cost per participant is each plan’s own Schedule H figure, and a filing that reported no administrative expenses says so instead of showing a zero.
PlanParticipantsCost per participant
Duke Energy Retirement Savings PlanDuke Energy Corporation35,803$144.76
IQVIA 401(k) PlanIQVIA Inc.34,208$51.31
Old Dominion 401(k) Retirement PlanOld Dominion Freight Line, Inc.25,676$60.46
Hearst Retirement Savings PlanThe Hearst Corporation23,794not itemized

Service providers (Schedule C)

Not reported in filing. Plans with bundled or revenue-sharing arrangements often report no Schedule C provider compensation. Absence here is a reporting artifact, not a $0 cost.

Source

DatasetDOL EFAST2 Form 5500 bulk data (FOIA)
Form year2024
Filing ACK_ID20251008072227NAL0003096531001
Dataset last refreshedJuly 28, 2026

Bulk dataset at askebsa.dol.gov ↗ · Look up the filing on EFAST2 ↗

Filings lag by design: a plan can file up to 9½ months after its year ends, so this is the newest data on file. Why filings lag

Cite this page

401(k) Monitor, "Trane Technologies Employee Savings Plan (Esp): Form 5500 facts", from DOL EFAST2 filing 20251008072227NAL0003096531001, plan year ended December 31, 2024.